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”I’m sorry you had to see me like that” = greatest Lost line ever? – EW.com Lost review.
While I failed to mention this great quote in my initial review, I didn’t fail to notice it. Not only was it a great line, but it was delivered to perfection.
By the way, the latest unique Lost [...]

I’m going to continue the model I did last year, which I thought was very successful and fun. I’ll post my immediate thoughts on the episode the night it airs, and over the next week I’ll collect comments and theories from readers and columns I’ve checked out, and post a “Revisited” column to be [...]

So I was beginning to think we were going to get two weeks in a row with Jack on the backburner as Renee takes center stage. That really only ended up being half true. I will say this, though: Don’t you just love when you can see a Jack ass kicking coming [...]

I want to thank those readers who commented on last week’s column and correctly pointed out to me that Parkman didn’t actually block Sylar’s abilities — he merely trapped him in his own subconscious, in a world in which he didn’t have abilities. Thanks for the info!
So next week is the season finale (the [...]

I don’t know what it is, but Smallville always does the best “Previously” montage videos. Great stuff.
Anyway, Smallville returns from a rather long hiatus and, yet again, we get a Green Arrow-centric episode. I feel like Oliver is going through the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man 2 syndrome, where there’s this inexplicable desire to give [...]

While this season was hyped as “Clark’s darkest hour,” I’m glad to say that the future Superman has remained the moral center of the series. Sure, he exchanged his blue jeans and red jacket for an all black outfit — and he did for a short while distance himself from his human relationships — [...]

So I have to admit that I was initially going to hold off on watching Heroes until Tuesday, but I follow Greg Grunberg on Twitter and he kept posting Tweets and Re-Tweets about how incredible the episode was and my curiosity got the best of me, so I decided to plop down at midnight and [...]

During 24’s highly underrated third season, I noted how much the series has grown beyond a one person show and into a genuine ensemble drama. As an example, I noted a particular episode in which Jack spent pretty much the entire hour following somebody in his car, while the real action focused on Michelle [...]

So I’ll be honest, Heroes had a pretty uphill climb throughout the episode. I mean, the episode was pretty evenly split between Sylar finding himself (for the millionth time) and Hiro having delusions (literally, this time) of heroism and grandeur. Frequent readers must know by now that these are my two favorite subjects. [...]

You know, as I wrote last night’s column I considered mentioning the clichéd scene in which the guy with information dies just as he’s about to reveal what he knows. But then I thought, “Well, he did divulge SOME information” so I decided not to nitpick. But then I thought about it more [...]

Just remember, it’s not a purse, it’s a satchel!
So this season we once again get a new setting, this time New York City. I’ve been arguing for years that the show should move to the city, which I believe is far more suitable location for the terrorist attack premise. The whole Los Angeles [...]

So if any good has come out of the failed Jay Leno experiment and the next installment of the late night wars, it’s that it may have bought Heroes another season (for my thoughts on the Leno/Conan “war,” visit my blog). Of course, I guess that depends on your perspective and whether or not [...]

This was a rather disheartening episode of Heroes for me. It didn’t really have anything to do with what happened during the episode, it was more about my enthusiasm – or lack thereof – going into it. Truth be told, I wasn’t even completely aware that a new episode was coming before I [...]

Ah, Heroes. What more can be said? This series is like that person in your life that you have special feelings for – you’re willing to make excuses to yourself and others to justify their behavior, but when you ultimately come to realize what they’ve become, it stings that much more.
As I’ve mentioned [...]

So was this the end of the volume? If so, talk about going out with a whimper. I don’t recall any hype leading to this finale – and if it was the last episode of this volume, with one exception, it really didn’t deliver a climatic conclusion.
That one exception, ironically enough, is the [...]

This might surprise some, but I honestly really don’t have anything critical to say about this week’s episode of Heroes. Indeed, despite the lack of action, it was one of the most focused episodes I’ve seen in quite some time. The three stories related to each other through a central theme, and the [...]

I want to take this opportunity to once again thank everybody who has read and contributed their comments to my reviews. I’ve really enjoyed the interactions, and it actually makes me even more eager for this upcoming season of Lost. If the amount of feedback I’ve received from Smallville and Heroes is any [...]

Before getting to this week’s episode, let’s revisit what should be known as “The Great Sylar Debate.” The big question we can’t seem to find a satisfying answer for: Did Sylar lose his powers at the conclusion of season one/beginning of season two, when he contracted the Shanti virus?
Most of the people who [...]

While I initially thought that I’d be skipping over this latest Internet trend, I finally succumbed to temptation and trend (pun!) by joining the Twitter-verse. So, be sure to follow me (@caseofthetwit). In addition to my latest blog entries and television reviews, I’ll also be posting some random thoughts and observations. I’d [...]

After waiting nearly a week, the CW Website finally got around to posting the latest episode of Smallville. I can’t really understand their mentality in waiting so long to make their shows available, because I’d assume that many other fans would either get impatient and download it illegally, or just wait until it pops [...]

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